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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 ce·cum /ˈsikəm/
 盲腸

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 ce·cum /ˈsɪkəm/ 名詞
 盲腸,盲囊,盲管

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 cae·cum n.; pl. Cæcums, L. Cæca   Anat. (a) A cavity open at one end, as the blind end of a canal or duct. (b) The blind part of the large intestine beyond the entrance of the small intestine; -- called also the blind gut. [Also spelled cecum.]
 Note: ☞ The cæcum is comparatively small in man, and ends in a slender portion, the vermiform appendix; but in herbivorous mammals it is often as large as the rest of the large intestine. In fishes there are often numerous intestinal cæca.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 cecum
      n : the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into
          which the ileum opens; "the appendix is an offshoot of
          the cecum" [syn: caecum, blind gut]
      [also: ceca (pl)]